Craig Webb, frontier physicist and Executive Director of the DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca), is a dream and consciousness researcher, author, public speaker, and inventor. He's been involved in pioneering dream and lucid dream research at Stanford University and Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital, helped found and produce Making Contact (a progressive radio show airing on ~200 stations for over a decade), and has made hundreds of media/public/corporate/academic appearances.

Have you ever dreamt of events that later come to pass in waking life? If so, you are in good company along with 2/3 of the general population. Can such information be harvested for beneficial and practical use? The new hit TV show "Medium" shows one application -- helping to solve crimes, but there are many others. For many people, such dreams bring fear or guilt, since most of us have no training about how to handle such experiences. Others are skeptical that such premonitions are even possible or more than just random chance. This presentation will explore the science, experience and applications of such dreams and visions.

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Plenary #83): Precognitive Dreams and the Everyday Physics of Free Will

Have you ever dreamt of events that later come to pass in waking life? If so, you are in good company along with 2/3 of the general population, with 1/3 being able to relate such experiences on demand and 1/12 being objectively verifiable.Can such information be harvested for beneficial and practical use? Following the theme of the Spielberg's thriller "Minority Report", the new hit TV show "Medium" shows one application -- helping to solve crimes, but there are many others. Some such dreams are for private personal development, and others are meant for the masses, such as the Pharaoh's dream from the bible, interpreted by Joseph that literally saved thousands of Egyptians from famine.For many people, such premonition experiences bring fear or guilt, since most of us have no training about how to handle this type of experience. This is a rather unfortunate scenario and is not at all what such dreams intend. Other people are skeptical that such premonitions are even possible or more than just random chance, yet modern science and physics shows how such perceptions are not only possible, but also quite likely to play a large role in the next level of our evolutionary development as a species.This presentation will explore the science, experience, and applications of such dreams and visions. If you're having the thought that this could be interesting, maybe it's a precognitive hunch that you already came, enjoyed the presentation, and learned something useful.